HashTab is a simple free utility that provides Windows extensions to calculate file hashes. HashTab supports many hash algorithms such as MD5, SHA1, SHA2, RipeMD, HAVAL and Whirlpool. While there are many tools around to perform Hash checks, HashTab propably does it the most simple and easy way. It adds a simple tab to the File properties (and hence the name I assume).
Would you compromise security for convenience? Hope not!!!
With Password Safe, you neither have to compromise security by writing you confidential information like Bank Account login details onto a piece of paper or copy them all onto an Excel sheet or even on a notepad nor have to make it complex to remember a million usernames and passwords. Yes, Password Safe as the name implies is a simple secure and very effective Password store (Database) where you can conveniently store username and password details for just anything and can even group them as you wish for easy access.
Security experts in the recent few months have been keen to exploit and bring to light issues and vulnerabilities in SSL which in itself is a secure protocol. So, what this means to ordinary users like you and me is that the confidence that we are accessing a secure webste when browsing HTTPS websites can no longer be same.
The Firefox 3.0 extensions “Perspective” & “SSL Blacklist” can protect you from SSL Man in the Middle Attacks and the recent demonstrated weakeness in MD5 algorithm for RSA signatures respectively.
Belarc Advisor is a PC profiling software that can build a detailed profile of your installed hardware, software, Windows Updates including Hot fixes and security updates and Antivirus software status. Belarc Advisor also shows the System Security score by comparing with the CIS (Center for Internet Security)benchmarks (dosn’t work yet on Windows Vista).
Windows Firewall pop up message and throws me out of website
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